Custom printed flat bottom pouches

Because it has a true rectangular base, sealed in as its own panel, so it sits on a shelf like a small box. It is built from three webs of film, front, back and base, joined with eight sealed edges: four vertical corner seams and four horizontal ones. That gives five printable panels and a base that stays flat under load. You will see the same bag sold as a box pouch, a block bottom bag or an eight side seal bag. They are all the same construction, and it is the format that holds a facing best on a crowded shelf.

Yes. A stand-up pouch has a folded oval base, so the corners of its footprint are never really used. A flat bottom pouch squares those corners off and fills the whole outline, so more product goes into the same width and depth. It also keeps standing when it is half empty, where a stand-up pouch begins to lean. The trade is cost: eight seals and three webs of film take longer to make, and the minimum is higher. It earns that back on any product that has to look full right down to the last scoop.

All three close the bag again. The e-zipper is our default: a wide track with a pull tab, easy to grip and press shut. Its tear notch and perforation are built in, so neither should ever appear as an extra line on your price. The opening is a little narrower than the bag, so very wide or rigid products may need a tray. A press-to-close zipper is the one for compostable kraft, because there is no compostable e-zipper. A tin tie rolls the top down over a wire and suits coffee and tea scooped every morning. Tell us how the bag is used and we will recommend one.

Yes. After filling, the top above the zipper is heat sealed shut, and that seal is what keeps the product fresh until the bag is first opened. The zipper or tin tie is for your customer after that. An impulse sealer does the job, and they are not expensive to buy online.

Five hundred per design on digital print. Three webs of film and eight seals take more converting than a simple bag, so the minimum is higher than on simpler formats. Pillow, flat and stand-up pouches start at 100 per design, and side gusset and quad seal are 500 like this one. Gravure, used for long runs, has its own minimum that depends on the bag size, and we quote it per job. It counts per design, not per order, so a four SKU range is four lots of 500, and each design can run a different quantity above that.

It is the modern premium coffee bag, and two thirds of the flat bottom bags we quote carry a degassing valve. A valve only works behind a barrier: metalized film, aluminum, or kraft with a barrier liner. On a clear film the oxygen comes straight through the wall and the valve achieves nothing. About a quarter carry a tin tie as well, folded over the top for day to day closing. Tell us on the quote that it is fresh roasted and we specify the material and the valve together, so your custom flat bottom coffee bags arrive ready to fill.

Front, back, two side panels and the base. Most brands put the mark on the front, ingredients and story on the back, and certifications, origin or a grind guide down the sides. The base is the one people forget, and it is visible on a low shelf and in every flat lay photograph. Seal areas are not printable, so keep anything that has to be read about 3 mm inside the seal line. We send a dieline with the safe zone marked on each panel. Five faces is more brand space than any other pouch format we make.

The base, and what the base does for you. A quad seal is formed with four corner seams and a folded bottom seam, so it boxes out toward square when full and softens as it empties. A flat bottom pouch has a separate base panel sealed in flat, which is what keeps it upright when it is half used, and it gives five printable panels against the quad seal's four. A quad seal is simpler to make and often the cheaper of the two on gravure. Both start at 500 per design, so the choice is about the shelf, not the budget.

About 5 inches wide by 6 inches high. Below that the base panel gets too small to sit flat, the format stops earning its cost, and an e-zipper will not fit either. Typical retail sizes run from 6 by 9 up to 8 by 12. If your product is smaller than that, a stand-up pouch or a flat pouch does the same job from 100 units rather than 500. Send us the product and the fill weight and we will size it properly, because volume decides the bag and weight on its own never does.

Yes, in any shape your artwork supports. On clear film we leave the area unprinted, and that costs nothing extra. On kraft the window is cut out of the paper and backed with clear AlOxPET, a high-barrier film, so the bag still keeps. Foil bags can take a window too, and on short runs that usually raises the price per bag. Larger gravure runs give you the most freedom. A window has less barrier than the rest of the bag, so keep it to the size the product needs and avoid it for anything light-sensitive.

Yes. Our films are FDA compliant and food grade, and we can supply SGS test reports for the materials, the same films we use for all our custom printed food pouches. The layer that touches your product is a food-grade polyethylene sealant. Your artwork is printed on the inside of the outer film and sealed under the laminate, so the ink sits behind the outer layer with the barrier between it and your product. If your market has a specific requirement, raise it at quote stage and we will confirm the structure against it.

Yes, in white or brown kraft with a compostable PBAT structure in place of the usual laminate. It is a lower barrier, so it suits product that sells through quickly. It takes a press-to-close zipper rather than an e-zipper, because no compostable e-zipper exists. We describe it as compostable film, not certified compostable, and we confirm the details for your bag on the quote.